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Shiffrin Named Colorado Athlete of the Year

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USSA

2014-01-13 15:31

Mikaela Shiffrin, shown here on the top of the podium in Flachau last January, has been named the 2013 Colorado Athlete of the Year (Getty Images/AFP - Alexander Klein)

DENVER, CO (Jan. 13) - World Champion Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) has been named the 2013 Colorado Athlete of the Year along with NFL star quarterback Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos. The pair will be honored with five other competitors from the Rocky Mountain state at the 2013 Colorado Sports Hall of Fame banquet on April 17 in Denver. In only her second full year on the World Cup tour, Shiffrin produced four slalom victories en route to the season-long discipline title. In addition, she won the World Championship gold medal for slalom last February to become the youngest alpine World Champion in American history. The 18-year-old returns to action Tuesday with a night slalom in Flachau, Austria where she is the defending champion. The final will be broadcast on live on Universal Sports Network with a first run recap at 2:30 p.m. ET.

HIGHLIGHTS

Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) has been named the 2013 Colorado Athlete of the Year along with NFL quarterback Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos.

Shiffrin won four Audi FIS Alpine World Cup slalom races last winter en route to the season-long title. In doing so, she became the youngest World Cup champion in U.S. history.

She also won the World Championship slalom title last February - just a year before her hopeful Olympic debut in Sochi, Russia - to become the youngest World Champion in American history.

Shiffrin and Manning, along wwith five other competitors from the Rocky Mountain State will be honored at the 2013 Colorado Sports Hall of Fame banquet on April 17 in Denver.